After Caring for My Mother in Law for Ten Years, I Was Given 48 Hours to Leave

when we had come to visit and he had chosen the couch, not during those last months when the chair stood empty because Margaret could no longer get out of bed. He had simply never sat there. And now, on the afternoon of his mother’s funeral, with the dirt of her grave still damp on my shoes, he was sitting in it like a man settling into an inheritance.continue reading …